Spring Conference 2025

Talk 1: Alan Fatar:
Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

A waking dream sometimes happens upon waking from sleep when a dream continues to feel present. Waking dream practice (also known as ‘active imagination’ and ‘guided imagery’) takes advantage of the spontaneously creative and therapeutic imagination found in this borderland consciousness in-between waking and dreaming. The workshop will present critical developments in this field, drawing upon perspectives from complexity theory, fractal geometry, eco-therapy and transpersonal psychology. Key principles and the basis of a practical method will be given for an image-centric approach to psychotherapy within focused applications such as art-based techniques as well as general therapeutic work with memories and future-fantasies, present moment perceptions and the transference – whether working with individual or groups.

Talk 2: Felicia Matteo:
Active Imagination for the Modern Alchemist

There are many portals to the unconscious. With practice and persistence, we can fortify the bridge between what we know and that which lives beyond the threshold. Utilizing active imagination, art making and alchemy, we will explore and discover practices for enlivening a personal relationship with the living reality of the ego/self-axis.
Please have art material available.

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